Build a Niche Store Review, www.paintballhoopla.com
November 3, 2007 | 2 Comments
November 2007 Build a Niche Store Review
This month, Pat Freck and the Paintball Hoopla niche site was chosen for the free Niche Store Review! The site, while just a few months old has quite a bit of promise as a Niche Store and this review should help get the traffic flowing in the right direction as well as help put a set of practices into place for future stores! Enjoy…
Build a Niche Store Site: www.paintballhoopla.com/
Target Niche: Paintball Guns and Supplies
Date Reviewed: 11/01/2007
By: Mark Hansen
Overall Score: 3 out of 10 (10 being the best)
- Domain Name: 8 (Has target word in domain name)
- Domain Age: 2 (Only active for 3 months)
- Niche Specific Site: 7
- Use of Keyword Meta Tags: 2
- Use of Description Meta tag: 2
- Use of Targeted Articles and Information: 0
- BANS Default Menu Optimization: 0
Lets get deep into the review of the Paintball Hoopla Site Read more
Grill Auctions Update 11/02/07
November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Hi All -
First and foremost, thanks to everyone for the kinds words of encouragement and prayers in regard to my fathers health! It is truly appreciated! Even though it has been a challenge to find the time to write each day, I am still deeply involved in the Grill Auction site and spend quite a bit of my free time working on making sure the contest winner has a good product and something I can be proud to award!
The site is still in the indexing process, but now shows more than 34 indexed pages, almost double that of just a couple days ago! In addition, a total of 12 of the targeted phrases now show in the top 20 SERP’s… I expect almost ALL of the category targets to be strong runners within 2 weeks.
The site has already produced both Google AdSense (4 clicks) and a CJ sale for a total revenue of $3.56. Not much I know… but in less than 2 weeks of very much part time and slow development, it is earning money! If I had pushed this site out in 1-2 days after registering the domain, it would be 1 month ahead of where it is now… The winner for this contest will not be disappointed!
I am still waiting for one of my boys to get my Grill Features article in my hands, but I think it is an issue of emails being crossed more than it not being done (Hint… Hint, Ryan)
I have had the combined contest results in my hands since yesterday morning, but have not had a chance to put it onto the screen - Here goes, results are through the end of day, October 31st.
- Ed Akehurst still holds the lead with 377 direct referrals
- Rochelle in second, is gaining significantly with 261 referrals!
- Otis still holds third with 94.
There have been two periods that the videos I uploaded have just killed my bandwidth limit and temporarily shut the site down for a few minutes… a few days, it has exceeded 5 gigs per day! That’s a big chunk of data… but I have made the proper increases to assure it does not happen again!
In case you all didn’t see, I also had a winner of my first official Build a Niche Store Review! Once each month, a new subscriber is chosen to have me go up and down their site and offer tips and suggestions for immediate improvement! In addition to the review, I provide detailed keyword and phrase reports on how they should focus their efforts in category building! At some point, I will have a chance to offer this as a paid service to anyone interested in getting it done… I just have not had the time to code the back-end stuff yet.
Happy Reading - Mark
Adding content to your Niche Store Website
November 1, 2007 | 4 Comments
We are getting very close to completing the Niche Store building series… I know I have slacked off a bit, but I am still out of state helping my father get healthy!! Challenging on several levels to say the least, but that is a whole section in itself!
The Grill Auctions site is live and already bringing in targeted traffic! In the 2 short days since my last post, the site has been visited by all three major engines and they continue to come back daily adding more pages into their respective indexes.
In addition, a few quick Google search engine result pages (SERP’s) for just a couple of our targeted terms shows we are already getting into the mix for business!
- Barbeque Smoker Kits #8 (Google SERP’s)
- Grill Auctions #1 (Google SERP’s)
- Chefmaster Indoor Barbeque Grill #14 (Google SERP’s)
I only listed a couple of the terms, but there are about 12 that are in the top 20 SERP’s with Google already. Why? Because we took the abstract terms (high KEI, long tail key phrases) people were looking for (Wordtracker search results) and created pages in our niche store to fill the void! This alone is the example of how your Niche Store will work very effectively!
So what next? Lets add some content to get MORE visitors! Read more
Niche Store Review Winner, October 2007
October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments
Drum-roll Please…. (ok, just imagine it)
The lucky subscriber who receives a Build a Niche Store review for October 2007…
freck48 “at” msn .com
Please send a confirmation email to mark @ thenichestorebuilder .com (remove all those pesky spaces) with the address of your Build a Niche Store and your targeted Niche market!
Mark
FREE Build a Niche Store Review - November 07
October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Good Morning everyone! On Weds, October 31st… yes, halloween, I am going to pick one lucky feed subscriber to receive a FREE Build a Niche Store review!
What exactly does that mean? Well… in my own infinite wisdom, I will take a detailed, microscopic look at your BANS site and offer very indepth suggestions as to what can be done to increase traffic and sales!
The only requirements for you to be eligible are:
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You must have a Build a Niche Store website
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You must be on the email subscriber list (enter in the upper right corner box)
Once the winner is chosen, you will be sent an email with the information I am going to need to proceed.
Good Luck!!
Mark
Grill Auctions Update
October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Good Morning everyone! Since I have been a slacker recently, I decided to post a quick note about the Build a Niche Store contest for the Grill Auctions site, as well as a brief overview of what I am doing on the site today.
First - in regard to the contest, I don’t want to post the current standings until I can access my office PC and get the spreadsheet I have been using to track the contest! When I left my home earlier this week to come to Massachusetts, I left some of my working files on my office computer. Normally this is not a problem as I can just remote desktop in and do what I need, but for some reason (probably the rain) I cannot access the system today. On Monday, I will have my office manager check the router and correct the issue.
So.. On to the Grill Auction status. Read more
Customizing & Search Optimization of Your Niche Site
October 26, 2007 | 6 Comments
Hi Everyone - So today, I decided I would combine the next sections… I did this for no other reason than to help myself save time! I know, that’s just wrong isn’t it? Actually, I know the customization of your Niche Store is a section that could literally take me a week or two to cover and I don’t want to do it any injustice by trying to rush through it!
For now - I am going to tell you what I changed from the default template and how the look was done. I will also get into the explanation of why certain things are in different areas and their impact or effect on search results.
You ready? I’m ready… let’s go! Read more
Customizing the look of your Build a Niche Store
October 25, 2007 | 2 Comments
For the past several days - I have been hiding! Seriously, I’ve had a family emergency and needed to travel to the cold country of Springfield Massachusettes, to stay with my father for a while during a bit of a health crisis. Like any good web-based worker though, I brought computers and all my work with me, setup an office in a spare room and I have only missed a few beats!
If any of you have followed the look of the www.GrillAuctions.com site since Tuesday, you can see that the look is changing rapidly! I should have the entire site schema set into a new look by the end of today and we can then begin the process of optimizing all our categories and product pages to start getting targeted traffic!
When I have the time that is needed to explain how I have done the look of the site, I will create a sectioned video for your enjoyment. In the meantime, there is a great explaination of the functionality of the css style sheet and how it affects your Niche Store site located at: http://www.banstoolbar.com/css-colors.htm
I will also post a contest update tomorrow - there has been quite a bit of activity since my last update and the traffic has picked up considerably!
Thanks for your patience…
Mark
Build a Niche Store Process FAQ
October 20, 2007 | 2 Comments
There have been many questions rolling in about Building a Niche Store and I wanted to post here with some of the most common questions and answers, or at least… my answers!
I also want to apologize for the video quality in yesterdays post. I am not a video person at all and have had a bit of a learing curve with the screen capture software in regard to size! It seems that when I ramble on for more than 5-8 minutes, the file size tends to get a little larger than the program can effectively handle… From this point forward, I will focus on shorter (5 minute) videos, sticking on one subject at a time!
Building a niche Store Process FAQ’s Read more
Creating Grill Auction Category Tree
October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Since creating the categories is a key element of success with your Build a niche Store, I am going to pause the tutorial series to a small extent over the next few days as I work to not only develop all the main and subcategories for the Grill Auctions website, but also to try and explain the process just a little better to those who may be having a hard time with it.
Today - my only goal is to get all categories populated - I am not even going to optimize the categories at this point, other than a quick copy/paste of some generic keywords., and placing the sub categories below the respective main categories.
Later today, I will record another short video clip of how I have done this.
Under normal circumstances, once you have the categories created, even before you have optimized them, you can open the store for the search engines to start indexing.
It should only take about 1-2 hours to get all categories and subcategories created, then I will spend 5 minutes posting just one or two links to the store on the web.
Once the categories are live - you will be able to optimize with keywords, descriptions, and text above your listings, in less than 5 minutes per category. I will visit that process beginning again tomorrow.
Mark